Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally the great interest in this production must focus upon Gershwin's music, for the libretto is but a direct translation of Heyword's familiar dramatic success. It is impossible, however, especially after a single hearing, to consider the score as an entity apart. Profoundly inspired by the rich drama of "Porgy", Gershwin has blended his music so utterly into the soul of the play that it combines with the stage actions to produce a single, deeply stirring impression...
Preparing to rehash all the old familiar points of the case, Mooney's counsel during the first week introduced only one novelty: the theory that the fatal explosive was not planted in the street by Mooney or anyone else, but was tossed off a roof by unknown dynamiters. Admittedly the defense lost an opening play to the State's Deputy Attorney General when the Supreme Court refused to define the admissibility of testimony which the referee might hear, a move which, according to Mooney, invited the State to fight him with material ranging from the Haymarket Riots to last year...
...these were thoroughly familiar to the art world and so were four of the five Goyas that were sent to Brooklyn. But the fifth seemed definite news: a Portrait of a Lady, in an elaborate feathered headdress, blue & white striped dress, holding a painted fan, and with a parrot perched beside her. It was a fine example of lusty Goya's most typical manner. The canvas had not been shown in either the Goya centennial exhibition in Spain, or in the great Goya loan show in Manhattan last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). It was not reproduced...
...Arms of the University on the other hand, consist of the familiar three open books (silver on white) with covers, clasps, and edges (gold or yellow) and the letters VE RI TAS on the books in black. The background is bright, clear...
Centering attention on the relationship of his characters and avoiding any heavy-handed anti-war ravings, Director Sidney Franklin has produced an interesting and absorbing albeit somewhat overly sentimental version of "The Dark Angel". The theme is familiar; two boys and a girl are brought up together and with the coming of age both boys develop a thoroughgoing love for the girl. They are both fine fellows but Allan (Frederic March) has a bit more dash to him and from the start he has held Kitty's (Merie Oberon) undivided affection Gerald (Herbert Marshall), the other chap takes the blow...